Reader recipes

Welcome to our reader recipe section where you can add and share your very own recipes.

As a registered user, you can upload and share your recipes, plus save your favourites from others. To see reader recipes, browse by category below, or click here to view all recipes. We'd love to see what you are cooking, so we invite you to enter your recipe now.

Seafood competition: The winning recipe

Congratulations to Isabelle Russell who submitted the winning seafood recipe in our Snapafest competition. Check out Isabelle's Kiwi take on a tradtional Brazilian fish stew here or enjoy some of favourites from the competition in our Collection here.

Oven bakes competition: The winning recipe

Big hearty congratulations goes to Sherene Newby, with her winning recipe for lamb bobotie. Bobotie is a traditional South African dish with curried mince, and Sherene has given it a delicious Kiwi twist by using New Zealand lamb. You can find her recipe here, and some of the other entries to the competition here.

Past competitions

Take a look at our previous reader recipe competitions and the recipes that caught our attention.

From the farm

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Dedicated to food and wellbeing, Bite is the New Zealand Herald's weekly food magazine. With a new theme each week, Bite offers recipes and kitchen tips contributed by some of New Zealand's most talented cooks and chefs. Bite magazine is supported by this mobile-friendly website with over 10,000 recipes, cooking advice, articles, competitions and food-related news.